With a deep-rooted flair for innovative business models, Manfred looks for attractive investments as BitStone Capital’s And Realyze Venture’s founding partner. After his financial education, he experienced the visionary way of working of global early-stage investors and their success criteria at a fund of funds of Deutsche Bank Private Equity. Immediately thereafter, he was able to apply this valuable experience in building ADC, an investment company focused on infrastructure and financial investments, catalyzing the business through technological add-on acquisitions. Subsequently, Manfred was instrumental in not only placing this company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, but ultimately selling it to Atlas Mara, a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). His next stop took him back to his roots, the search for spectacular business models. Together with the company builder crossbuilders, he implemented several real estate start-up ideas and developed, among other things, the basis for today’s “Commerzbank Baufi-App”. A Cologne native at heart, he would never deny his Eifel origins. There and in other breathtaking places around the world, you can meet him on adventurous trails to recharge his batteries. Prior Stations: Deutsche Bank Private Equity, ADC African Development Corporation, crossbuilders Education: Banker (Kreissparkasse Euskirchen), Business Diploma in Banking & Finance (TH Cologne), M.Sc. Finance (Frankfurt School), Project & Infrastructure Finance Program (London Business School)
